Rumour has it that Citigroup is going forward with the $400 million stadium sponsorship deal for the Mets, which I guess they figure is just a drop in the bucket compared to the $36.5 billion in tax money they’ll be receiving.
I have an idea. Use that $400 million to buy Mets tickets for [...]

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Senior Republican senators warned on Sunday their party was unlikely to back the stimulus bill without changes to cut waste…
I’d wager that adequate resources for regulations enforcement by the SEC would be considered wasteful. Ditto the FDA, for things like ensuring that salmonella is not released into the food supply. Or the Army Corps [...]

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This illustrated article in the NY Times is just so beautiful. It expresses the hope and joy people feel about the new administration.
The very notion of using the term “hope and joy” in a political context strikes me as odd.
On a personal level, I love and admire the illustrations. One of my creative blocks is [...]

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I hope the mom is better at saying “no” to her 14 children then her parents, doctors and insurance companies were with her.
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A class called “pavement marking rodeo” just brings wonderful images to my mind. And it could explain a lot about NCDOT.
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Cox Communications, the third-largest U.S. cable company, stepped on to the battleground of the “Net Neutrality” issue Tuesday, saying it will be trying out a new way to keep its subscribers’ Internet traffic from jamming up.
Starting on Feb. 9 in parts of Kansas and Arkansas, Cox will give priority to Internet traffic it judges to [...]

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Tomorrow morning, Barry and I leave for a bit of an adventure. We’re driving up to Manassas, VA, where we’ll be staying with a first cousin that I’ve never met. On Sunday morning, I’ll be meeting more of my Virginia relatives, the descendants of my father’s sister, who left New York with her second husband [...]

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I’ve bitched on these pages about the incompetence and indifference that I encounter in my daily life…whether with the post office, cell phone service providers, banks, etc. These incidents are the hazards of modern life that we all deal with by gritting our teeth and kvetching to our spouses or friends over a beer at [...]

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Wal-Mart’s latest tagline, incorporated into your logo on walmart.com, is “Save money. Live better.” Living better is no longer an option for Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour, trampled to death in Valley Stream, NY on the day after Thanksgiving by crowds anxious to save money in “Black Friday” sales.
There is no acknowledgment of this tragedy on [...]

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The automatic ad feed in an article on yahoo news about the shootings in Mumbai:
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